While Steven Spielberg might hail superhero movies as Oscar-worthy, the likes of Martin Scorsese and Anthony Hopkins have gone on to criticize Marvel and DC flicks and even deemed them not cinema-worthy. Although each actor has a right to have their own opinions regarding different genres of cinema, fans have disliked how big names in Hollywood have time and again belittled superhero flicks and the actors who work in them.
Over the years, fans have waged war against such opinions, and comic book actors have defended such movies. And now, even Walton Goggins has joined them after Ray Winstone recently called out the excessive use of green screens in superhero flicks.
Walton Goggins Defends Marvel’s Use of Green Screens
It is no secret that superhero flicks, especially Marvel movies, rely heavily on the use of CGI and other technologies to make the often blockbuster movies they make. Thus, shooting against green screens is a common thing for a lot of comic book actors.
Yet actors who aren’t as familiar with the art of shooting along a green screen have voiced how monotonous it is and that some have even called it not real acting as Anthony Hopkins did in his interview with The New Yorker. Joining the long list of such actors is Ray Winstone (via Radio Times), who was seen in Marvel’s Black Widow as the primary antagonist.
And in a recent interview with The Independent, Walton Goggins (seen in MCU’s Ant-Man and the Wasp) was asked about his experience of working in a Marvel movie and acting against the said monstrosity called Green Screen.
“I mean, can you b*tch and complain about looking at a f**king green screen? Of course you can.. But you also can b*tch and complain about being in minus-30-degree weather doing a movie that takes place in the snow, you know?”
Goggins thus clapped back at everyone who has ever complained about the experience while going on to state how soul-crushing and almost suicidal experience it is to work in an independent movie sometimes.
Walton Goggins Misses Acting Against a Green Screen
Christian Bale starred as the Marvel villain Gorr in Thor: Love and Thunder. Although an impeccable actor, he went on to criticize the monotony there is on the sets due to the presence of green screens. Unable to differentiate one set from another, Bale was critical of his experience on the Marvel flick during his interview with GQ.
While Bale is not the first and certainly not the last one to state thus, Walton Goggins, on the other hand, is from a different breed of actors. While he definitely seems to enjoy every genre and role he does, the actor, while talking to The Independent, explained he misses Marvel movies or acting against a green screen.
“I can tell you right now – if I did eight movies in a row where I’m f***ing killing myself for an independent movie, that is soul-crushing. I would look at my friends and say, ‘I just want to go look at a green screen for a while.'”
Goggins, who is doing an impeccable job as The Ghoul in Fallout, thus stated that acting against a green screen isn’t as bad as some actors make it out to be. Although many would disagree with his statement, he, too, has the right to voice his opinions.
Ant-Man and the Wasp can be streamed on Disney+, while Goggins’s latest Fallout is streaming on Amazon Prime.
